New paper in Current Biology: liana cutting accelerated canopy recovery in logged tropical forest three times faster than tree planting, at one tenth of the cost. From 24 years of the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment, Sabah, Borneo. belian.earth/news/liana-c...

a5R 0.4.0 is on CRAN 🎉 . - a5_polygon_to_cells() and a5_linestring_to_cells(); index polygons and great-circle lines to A5 cells. - a5_grid() is deprecated; reach for a5_polygon_to_cells() instead which is ~2x faster. belian-earth.github.io/a5R/index.html #rstats #rspatial #a5geo

I have no problem considering consciousness in terms of LLMs, it's obvious - small robot consc., the thing is a gradation, well illustrated by Daniel Dennett and co. The problem is thinking it's all or nothing. It's not "a brain", it's powerful, not powerful enough for the illusion we fly in, yet

New: Zarr support in deck.gl-raster! Here's a GPU-driven animation of Zarr temperature forecasts, fully client-side, no server involved. developmentseed.org/deck.gl-rast...

I implemented a fork of {targets} which provides the necessary changes to support {mori} shared memory regions! Check out the discussion thread below to learn more about the implementation: github.com/ropensci/tar... And try out the primary fork here: github.com/tylermorganw... #RStats

R version 4.6.0 "Because it was There" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats The choice of codename is in remembrance of R Core member Tomàš Kalibera (1978-2026). Among many other things, he was a keen mountain climber.

Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... 🧵 1/3

146 million US jobs. Styled by category on a fast, filterable interactive map. Explore it here: walker-data.com/freestiler/l... The map is powered by {freestiler}, a Rust-powered vector tiling tool that is now available in general release on CRAN.

a5R brings the A5 pentagonal geospatial index to R. Equal-area pentagonal cells across 31 resolutions, encoded as 64-bit integers, with millimetre-level precision at the finest scale 🗺️ R package by Hugh Graham; a5 by Felix Palmer github.com/belian-earth... #rstats #rspatial #dggs

extendr v0.9.0 is release! 🚀 (hopefully) our last until v1.0.0! Improved DX 👨🏻‍💻 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙜𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙚 included! - `anyhow` support out of the box - deprecates `rextendr::document()` use {devtools} only! - use std trait implementations instead of custom methods #rstats #rust extendr.rs/blog/posts/2...

After 'helping' @dfalbel.bsky.social land the torch 2.8 bump, I vibe-coded a Linux-only libtorch wrapper. Also, the 3rd use of ASTs I teased: compilers! TorchScript is on the way out in favor of Python-only TorchDynamo; this is a path for R torch users #rstats cornball.ai/posts/torcha...

Still a WIP but I've been building a new #rstats 📦 for cloud optimised reads of #GEDI and IceSat-2 data. It's 20 x quicker than direct download and saves 10-100s of GiB on disk. The #rust powered hdf5 parser is crazy fast - with help from the 🤖. belian-earth.github.io/spacelaser/ #rspatial #rextendr

update: if the struct implements serde's deserialize, you can use extendr_api::serializer::to_robj to return an Robj

Come to @cascadiarevolting.bsky.social and take my Intro to Rust + Extendr workshop ORRRR contribute to base R your call! I'll only be offended if you don't come! /s #rstats

the gallery of real-world online Zarr stores {zaro} now tests against (via gha) zaro needs your feedback, this is a #Zarr engine in R using #Arrow for the heavy lifting (IKR!, main player is arrow::S3FileSystem) #RStats github.com/hypertidy/zaro

I've tried many workflow automation tools and nothing beats the #rstats package {targets}. It's pure R, simple (while being feature-rich, great support for parallel execution and multi-lingual workflows, this is calling Python+DuckDB). It *trounces* the likes of make/dagster 4me. Check it out!

CRAN updates: a5R SEMID #rstats

📣 arrow-extendr now supports polars! 🐻‍❄️ Use {duckdb} + {polars} + {arrow} + DataFusion all from extendr with a handful of lines of Rust 🦀 #rust #rstats

An interactive geotiff viewer extension for #vscode / #positron powered by @kylebarron.dev's amazing deck.gl-raster. Just click on a tif file and take a peek. Early days but give it a spin and let me know if there are any issues. ✌️ github.com/belian-earth...

Three updates in deck.gl-raster v0.4: 1. New example for NDVI filtering on the GPU 2. When zooming in, render coarser image data while higher-res data is still loading 3. Fixed reprojection and rendering at high latitudes developmentseed.org/deck.gl-rast...

Some of the test cases for the native LaTeX math expression parser and renderer I've been working on for textshaping which will soon bring native math equation rendering to #rstats and marquee

I've used Rapp to make an R CLI before and its lovely! #rstats

1/5‼️Gigantic new #rayverse update + blog post! Introducing {skymodelr}: render 3D scenes in #RStats with realistically-lit skies 🌇 at a given location, using just a latitude, longitude, and a time. Blog: www.tylermw.com/posts/rayver... Github: github.com/tylermorganw... Site: www.skymodelr.com

New CRAN package a5R with initial version 0.2.0 #rstats https://cran.r-project.org/package=a5R

An absolutely stunning view of a large haboob sweeping across Texas.

{arcgislayers} + {calcite} + {mapgl} 🗺️ read the data from ArcGIS Online, create the UI with Calcite, visualize with MapGL. #rstats #spatial #gischat

I get to flex #rstats up on this bad larry shortly. Not terrified at all. Call me Mr. 💩👖

zr R package for zarrs github.com/mdsumner/zr (no remotes or Icechunk but coming soon) #RStats

{calcite} v1.0.0 is out 🎉 Oh and {mapgl} has esri-basemap support now 👀 Try it out with calcite::open_example("page-sidebar-penguins") 🤖 using Claude? Feed it calcite context! r.esri.com/calcite/llms... A release post coming soon.... #rstats

#EOchat: Following last week's initial release of #NISAR L-band #SAR 🛰️ data by the #ASFDAAC, here's some sample data over northeastern #Guatemala. The large red splotches in the 1st 2 images (freq. A) are RFI artefacts, not visible in the 2nd 2 images (freq. B). #GoldenAgeOfSAR

Getting very into a5 right now, its such a clever geospatial index when you get into it! A bunch of new functions have landed in {a5R} including new traversal functions and paired cell distance calculation. belian-earth.github.io/a5R/articles... #rspatial #rstats

HTTP streaming and Server-Sent Events in R with nanonext. Here's an example: gist.github.com/jrosell/178e...

🌍🤖 New update on the PRISM project: spatial ML validation, model errors, improving R packages (incl. supercells), and contributing to open geocomputation resources. jakubnowosad.com/posts/2026-0... #MachineLearning #RStats #RSpatial #OpenScience

Done the same last month github.com/euctrl-pru/a5r

#Duckdb #htslib #Genomics #Bioinformatics #RStats duckths: Read HTS (VCF/BCF/BAM/CRAM/FASTA/FASTQ/GTF/GFF) files in DuckDB via htslib Rduckhts: 'DuckDB' High Throughput Sequencing File Formats Reader Extension genomic.social/@bioinfhotep...

{controlledburn} fulfils a wish for fasterize polygon rasterization in "abstract mode". A unicorn combination of exactextract+fasterize, and a wildly compact rep. of run lengths for fill, weights for individual partial cover, and dense storage ...

rising from the depths #rstats

My first actual stats #rstats package... Another #rust wrapper -this time for the insanely performant petal-cluster crate. So far it seems super fast but would love feedback if you have any! ✌️ github.com/belian-earth... includes DBSCAN, HDBSCAN, and OPTICS algorithms.

#RStats When i was looking at some of the perf in quickr readme, i was thinking oh these tails are R's garbage collection pauses, the R-to-C (LLM enabled) rabbit hole i went in makes the pauses worse because it is really R to R's C API and sometimes calling into R via Rf_eval :D

Present at @cascadiarconf.bsky.social !!!! I can't wait to meet y'all there! #rstats

{lazysf} gets a massive update: github.com/hypertidy/la... #RStats a *simple features* dataframe with a #GDAL vector backend: {dbplyr) SQL generation, with execution via {gdalraster}, {wk} for geometry interchange+crs. R's modern dataframe and query push-down support #RStats

A new version of {valh} has hit the CRAN. {valh} is an interface between R and the Valhalla API. Valhalla is a routing service based on OpenStreetMap data. https://github.com/riatelab/valh This is mostly a maintenance release, no new features, but the package […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

#rstats bindings for the awesome #a5 DGGS. My first rust based package with help from the 🤖. #rspatial github.com/belian-earth...

#Rstats #HPC gurus Is there a package for mixed precision arithmetic that covers most of the exotic new floating points or one needs specialized ML package from the r-xla organization like tengen github.com/r-xla/tengen

R Coding for Ecology chapter on the cartogram package explores mapping ecological patterns with cartograms -- visualizing sampling bias by resizing regions based on data values. Chapter: doi.org/10.1007/978-... Code: github.com/RCodingForEc... #RStats #GIS #DataViz #LandscapeEcology

#RStats #Statsky Any references and packages out there on statistical inference around binary outcomes for whom some outcome have no measurement error but the other has ? Should i just use linear models and get over it ?

sometimes I look at all the zarr variants apis and just think "this is a whole new round of horseshit just like opendap and netcdf was", declared utopia by the matlab community 20 years ago and we've come close to an actual rich ecosystem of tools but it's all being wrapped up in marketing again.

still insanely out of date [ OK] mur-sst-aws MUR SST L4 Global (JPL, NASA) NASA JPL / AWS Open Data | V2 | s3 s3://mur-sst/zarr-v1 dims={'time': 6443, 'lat': 17999, 'lon': 36000} (27.57s)

A very long lead time... but {tissot} hit CRAN today, no bounce 😁 Tissot Indicatrix for Map Projection Distortion (math and explainer and code originally outlined by whuber direct from Snyder manual 👌) #RStats hypertidy.r-universe.dev/tissot

#RStats Rduckhts: 'DuckDB' 'HTS' File Reader Extension for 'R' Sitting on the shoulders of the great #htslib API and the duckdb C API Package : rgenomicsetl.r-universe.dev/Rduckhts